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Small Business? Throw out your file server and get Dropbox for Teams.

A few weeks ago one of the companies I work with had a file server dramatically crash after years of faithful service.??The crash cost two days of engineering time to set up a new server from scratch and restore files from backups. Even before the crash, it would take engineering time to add new users and set permissions. The permissions were never really done properly and many folders were accessible simply by using a shared username & password that made the rounds.??

There were also occasional issues with files being overwritten with older versions and work needing to be redone!??

Running their own "cheap" in-house server was actually getting expensive and introducing huge amounts of risk. Some of the employees at the company started using their personal Dropbox accounts for handling mission critical files such as accounting records. This had the benefit of giving Revision Control up to one year and rollbacks in case of files getting corrupted. Folders could also be shared, but, the file ownership was by nature "personal". If an employee left the company it would create security problems.??

Although it's a Cloud Storage Service, your files are synchronized across all your devices, thus meaning fast, local access at all times without the need of an internet connection.??

At first, I thought the price came in a bit steep at $795 per year for 5 users, or $13.25 per user per month. You could buy a half-decent Ubuntu server for $795, but the cost of setting it up properly, maintaining it, security and lost productivity quickly adds up to thousands of dollars. Professional companies in Cape Town charge in the region of $500 a month for basic server monitoring & maintenance and callout fees of $100 per hour.??

5 thoughts on “Small Business? Throw out your file server and get Dropbox for Teams.”

I’ve been looking at Dropbox for Teams for a while now and it’s definitely the way to go once a business grows beyond 5 or 6 people and the 50GB for $100/year per user is too expensive. For now, with 3 of us, even $300 per year for the 3 of us (50GB each) is cheaper.

Its truly amazing that I am also using dropbox and I’m loving it a lot.I never tried dropbox for team though. Thanks for sharing info about it.Trishia<a href=http://www.parasoldeporte.com title="parasol d??port??">Cliquez ici</a>??to visit my blog.

Since the campaign of Dropbox are so encouraging and very effective, it is only good that they gain more client from using this online server that their old one. What Dropbox did was so great, as kind marketing way.